Resource for Designing Authentic Assessment

As I'm currently teaching both ELA Methods and the Practicum in Student-Centered Coaching, I often find great resonance between the ideas being discussed by beginning teachers and experienced coaches. It's amazing to know we are all often much more 'on the same page' than we might think.

One of my coaches is currently embarking on a coaching cycle with a teacher who wants to design a menu of assessment options for his students to choose from in order to demonstrate their learning within a unit. They are currently working through the steps that we have been thinking about in ELA methods over the past two weeks--how to make sure that assessments are aligned to the standards, to compare the rigor and experience of students engaging in those assessments, and to determine how to scaffold to support needs.

They are working with this resource which might be helpful to consider. It connects Bloom's Taxonomy and Webb's Depth of Knowledge (another way to think about how activities ask students to engage with content in different ways). It also gives a nice list of examples for what different activities might look like depending on what level you are focusing on.

webbs-dok-flip-chart by on Scribd